A crash for Sam Lowes in WorldSBK Race 1 atღ last weekend’s Aragon World Superbike round ultimately l💫eft him out of action on Sunday.

Lowes crashed on the first lap, with fluid leaking on his rear tyre after a minor contact with the Yamaha R1 of Jonathan Rea when theyജ were 🔴entering the second corner together.

Lowes said he “I didn’t feel the contact, it was obviously slight,” when he spoke to Eurosport after being declared unfit on Sunday morning in Aragon. However, it was that 𝕴“slight” contact which ultim👍ately led to Lowes’ crash.

“I’m actually quite happy with my start,” Lowes s💛aid. “My starts were bad in Cremona, so I was happy to sort of hold my own.

“But then entering into tu🌃rn two, Johnny [Jonathan Rea] is just behind me and he had [Garrett] Gerloff coming over the front of him and he just gets sandwiched in a bit and he just clips the back of my bike — very easy to do.

“Obviously, that corner on the first lap, everyone sort of funnels in there. I didn’t feel it, Johnny obviously just sort of sits up, but it𝔉 just must have been enough [to cause the problem].

“I lost the rear a bit [exiting turn three]. It was on the kerbs, I saw Alex [Lowes] do the same, b🐬ut when I came up into turn four I lost it a l📖ittle bit [entering], thought ‘what’s going on’, and then, nothing.

“I fell straight onto the kerb wh𒅌ich was unfortunate, I knew straight away when I got up the shouldeꦏr [was hurt].

“I didn’t quite know what was going on because it’s a strange ꧃crash, not a normal thing. I knew I didn’t do anything wrong at that point, but iಌt was a strange one.

“It’s unfortunate, it’s been a lot better weekend for me, qualifying was close, just an unfortunate on🔥e.”

Lowes was able to take part in Warm Up on Sunday morning before♉ a medical review after the session in which he was ruled unfit.

“I actually thought I was going🍌 to be alright this morning,” Lowes said. “I went out and I braked into turn 12 on the first lap and sort of fell a bit forward and thought ‘That’s not ideal’.

“The problem is, where I did it in Most, it has recovered a bit but because I’ve took a ♋whack on it again yesterday, I’ve just cracked— not quite the same place where all the callus is, but a bit further along. So, obviously not possible to ride.”

Although Lowes was unfit for Aragon's Superpole Ra✅ce and Race 2, he is expecting to be back for the next round at Estoril.

“I’m a bit beaten ▨💯up,” Lowes said after crashing on both Friday and Saturday at Aragon.

“The shoulder, it’s not like the past, when I did it in Most — it’s not destroyed, I’ll be able to be in Estor🌳il, but j🗹ust one day [after the Race 1 crash] I’m still struggling a bit.

“I thought Iꦰ was alright, I went out and did 🎉an ‘ok’ lap time in Warm Up, but, to do the race, especially straight into the Superpole Race, I wasn’t ready for it.

“It will be nice to g꧟et to Estoril, try to continue this upward trend of the riding, the class in Superbike is a big learning curve this year and we’re slowly getting there.”